Summary & Highlights

Welcome to Linchpin Essentials 2.4!

For this release we put the emphasis on accessibility - or to be more specific on screen reader compatibility. Examples for this are the "add profile picture" button and links to profiles in various places. The "headline with menu" macro and the "action drawer" button both work better with screen readers now, als well as various icons within the Space Directory and the Linchpin Sidebar. 

For Linchpin User Profiles we've added the ability to use several more field types as filters in the user directory. We've also adjusted the logic of link detection to avoid false positives (e.g. for academic titles).

An of course this release also brings a lot of other improvements and bugfixes .

Make sure to check out the full release notes!

Linchpin Essentials

Accessibility

• We greatly improved the compatibility of Linchpin Essentials with screen readers. 
  For more information, visit seibert.biz/accessibilityinlinchpin and read the remaining release notes below!

Linchpin User Profiles

Extended filters and screen reader improvements

Accessibility

• We added screen reader compatibility for the "add profile picture" button and for several links to profiles

New features

• We added the ability to use several more field types as filters in the user directory: full name, phone and IM
• We adjusted the logic of link detection to avoid false positives (e.g. for academic titles)

Improvements

• If you use "User & Group Sync" by re:solution (version 2.6 or newer) to fill Linchpin User Profile "IdP" fields, org charts and personalization will now pick up updated values immediately. You don't need to clear caches manually anymore.

Linchpin Theme

Accessibility

• We added screen reader support for the "headline with menu" macro and the "action drawer" button
• We improved screen reader support for the Space Directory and Linchpin Sidebar

New Features

• We added the dark feature "seibertmedia.linchpin.navigation.scroll.menu" to display scroll arrows in top level navigation instead of a line break, if there is not enough space for menu items

Bugfixes

• We adjusted the intranet name element and hide the header, if it is not needed
• We fixed the doubled header in the Terms of Use apps' disclaimer view

Complete changelog

Here is a complete overview of all of the changes that we've implemented in our Linchpin Essentials release.

Accessibility

• We added screen reader compatibility for the "add profile picture" button and for several links to profiles
• We added screen reader support for the "headline with menu" macro and the "action drawer" button
• We improved screen reader support for the Space Directory and Linchpin Sidebar

New features

• We added the ability to use several more field types as filters in the user directory: full name, phone and IM
• We adjusted the logic of link detection to avoid false positives (e.g. for academic titles)
• We added the dark feature "seibertmedia.linchpin.navigation.scroll.menu" to display scroll arrows in top level navigation instead of a line break, if there is not enough space for menu items

Improvements

• If you use "User & Group Sync" by re:solution (version 2.6 or newer) to fill Linchpin User Profile "IdP" fields, org charts and personalization will now pick up updated values immediately. You don't need to clear caches manually anymore.

Bugfixes

• We adjusted the intranet name element and hide the header, if it is not needed
• We fixed the doubled header in the Terms of Use apps' disclaimer view